A Calm Website and Booking System for Your Meditation Centre

Mythex lets a meditation centre keep one list of students, courses and places left: a timetable of sits with a first-visit guide, drop-in booking capped below the cushion count, beginner courses whose waiting list fills itself, day retreats with lunch choices, and memberships that can pause. Describe your centre in chat, check the live preview and publish with a real database.

Running a centre on goodwill and a notebook

A meditation centre has a weekly rhythm of drop-in sits, beginner courses that start every month or two, and a few day retreats a season. Newcomers arrive in waves in January and early autumn, often anxious about arriving late or sitting wrong. Many centres are partly run by volunteers and funded by memberships, course fees and dana. Sign-ups come by email, at the door and through social posts, and the course waiting list lives in a notebook by the door, so a cancelled place rarely reaches the next person in time. A centre needs a gentle way for people to find a sit, book a course, join a waiting list and keep coming back, without turning the place into a shop.

A timetable showing style, teacher and whether beginners are welcome
Drop-in sits capped by cushions and chairs
Beginner courses with start dates and an automatic waiting list
Course recordings released week by week
Donations kept separate from fees
Memberships with a pause option

What you can build for meditation centres

A timetable and a first-visit page

Each sit shows its style, teacher and whether beginners are welcome, linked to a short first-visit page: what to wear, whether to bring a cushion, when the door closes for silence. Course pages show dates, weeks and places left, and a page explains how the centre is funded.

Build a website for my meditation centre with a weekly timetable of sits (style, teacher, beginners welcome or not), a first-visit page linked from every sit covering what to wear, cushions and late arrival, beginner course pages with dates and places left, and a page explaining our funding through memberships, fees and dana.

Drop-in booking that keeps a cushion spare

Drop-in sits are capped slightly below the cushion count so regulars are never turned away. Booked students see that the door closes when the sit begins. One-to-one teacher sessions book separately, and sits deduct from a member's pass where they have one.

Create booking for my meditation centre's drop-in sits. The hall has 30 cushions and 6 chairs; cap bookings at 32 and let students request a chair. Show that doors close at the start time. One-to-one sessions with a teacher are booked separately, and members' sits deduct from their monthly pass.

Beginner courses that move as a group

Each week pairs a short teaching with a guided recording, released only after that class has happened. Students keep a home practice log, cohorts start on set dates, and finishing the course invites them to the next step.

Make an online course area for my centre's 6-week beginner course. Each week has a short teaching text and a guided audio recording, released the day after that week's class. Students log daily practice minutes, cohorts start on fixed dates, and completion adds a note to their record.

Day retreats with lunch and a note on silence

Day retreats have a capacity, a lunch choice and a note on whether the day is silent. Residential retreats take room types and a deposit, visiting teacher talks are ticketed separately, and retreats that require experience check it at sign-up.

Create retreat booking for my meditation centre. Day retreats have 40 places, a lunch choice (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free) and a note that the day is held in silence. Residential retreats offer shared or single rooms with a deposit. Intermediate retreats require completion of the beginner course.

Supporter, regular and concession tiers

Each tier has its own monthly fee and number of sits, members get retreat priority, and anyone travelling or going through a hard patch can pause rather than cancel.

Set up memberships for my meditation centre: supporter (unlimited sits plus a monthly donation), regular (unlimited sits) and concession (8 sits a month). Members get priority retreat booking and can pause for up to 3 months.

Students tagged with their last course

Each student records the courses they finished, retreats attended, volunteer roles and accessibility needs such as a chair. When an intermediate course opens, you invite exactly those who completed the beginner course.

Make a student CRM for my meditation centre. Students have courses completed, retreats attended, volunteer roles (door, tea, setup) and accessibility notes. When I open a course, list students whose last completed course is its prerequisite.

Fees and donations

Keep dana and donations separate from course fees and memberships from the first day. They are often treated differently for tax and charity reporting, and untangling a year of mixed payments is miserable. Ask for a donation option with its own receipt. The reporting rules where you operate are yours to check.

Retiring the notebook by the door

Move the next beginner course first: put it online with its places and a waiting list, and add everyone from the notebook in the order they signed up. When someone cancels, the next person is offered the place automatically. Then add the drop-in timetable and booking, and the student records as people attend.

Next beginner course and its waiting list
Notebook names added in order
Drop-in booking next

Questions

Can the waiting list fill places automatically?

Yes. When someone cancels, the next person on the waiting list is offered the place by email and has a set time to accept.

Can we accept donations as well as fees?

Yes. Add a donation option with its own receipt, kept separate from fees. Payments go through a provider such as Stripe connected with your own account.

Can volunteers manage bookings?

Yes. Give volunteers roles limited to what they run, such as the door list for tonight's sit.

Do we need someone technical?

No. Describe how your centre works and Mythex builds it. Changes are made by asking in chat.

Is it free?

The Free plan needs no card and gives daily credits to build and publish. Pro is $25/month and adds a custom domain, code editing and export.

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